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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Security/Capability on global parameters

We would like to use global parameters as a place where users and advanced users can define and reuse parameters (especially default parameters).To be able to use global parameters in this way we need to be able to separate security/capabilities o...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft SQL Server 2022

Microsoft recently released their new database server.Microsoft SQL Server 2022 is neither tested nor listed as supported query/ content store database for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4. Looking forward to see this as supported datasource for IBM Co...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve manage of role members

It is very difficult to manage role members in new web interface. We have role with about 1000 members from AD and loading is really very slow. It is impossible to find member in list. Add new member takes lot of waiting time. Now we can use old A...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

#cpfield A request for the Cognos Dashboards to expand its support resources.

We want the Cognos Dashboards to support the following types of connection data: DB2(LUW) connection : SSL connection and SHA256 password encription Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL : SSL connection and SHA256 password encription Amazon S3 : CSV file
over 3 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 1

Add IBM LSF RTM alert interval by weekly basis, currently it only has daily alert notice in RTM pop-up column.

IBM Spectrum LSF RTM only have hours, daily basis of alert pop-up column could choose. For management of current alert aggregation, We need IBM to add this feature enhancement into RTM fix patch. The features enhancement came from needs of...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

alter table online when modifying char length without killing the sessions

today my db is accessed through many web server. the main table is frequently modified : char increased and new fields. i had to bounce the engine to remove all the sessions easily.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automating process that every steps are performed when a FAP synch is required

Hi Team, We have faced issue with sync in Past between the FAP and Controller databases where IBM need to manually go ahead IBM executed a sync between the FAP and Controller databases. Can we automating this process so that every steps are perfor...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

allow multiple return urls in OIDC namespace

Since current cognos OIDC namespace only allows 1 Return URL, we can only access cognos using the domain name specified in return URL, which is normally gateway URL. If we need to access cognos via Dispatcher URL, we need to create additional name...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Display Chore status in PAW Task Pane

Using PAW v2.0.43 the status of Chores (enabled or disabled) is not shown in the Chores section of the task pane. I am aware you can tell if they are active by creating a widget or by right clicking them and seeing 'activate/deactivate' from the r...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration